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Your eyes simply take in more light in order to cope with less available light. Thats why when you look in a mirror after you turn a light on your pupils start to shrink.

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Usually darkness (or certain drugs)...

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Fear and changes in light or darkness.

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Q: What causes the pupil of the eye to enlarge?
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What causes difference in the coloration of your eye pupil?

The pupil is allways black. The iris is the colored part.


How is the Nerve impulse responsible for the pupil becoming smaller?

Pupil is a window for the light to enter our eyes. When we are in a dim light a nerve impulse is generated to the brain to enlarge the pupil. Size of pupil is managed by the iris (coloured part of the eye). If excessive light is there, the pupil shrinks to a smaller size so that the eye's not damaged esp. the retina where the image of objects are formed


What causes the pupil of the eye to get very small?

dilating


Where is pupil in your eye?

The pupil is the black center part of the eye.


What is an analogy for the part of the eye pupil?

Pupil is to eye as nostril is to nose


Why do eyes need bright and dim light?

Eyes do not need bright and dim light - although the iris (colored part of the eye) and pupil (black center of the eye) function differently under these circumstances. In bright light, the muscles in the iris contract to make the pupil smaller. In dim light, the iris makes the pupil enlarge to allow as much of the scarce light as possible.


Where is the pupil in your eye?

The pupil is the opening in the center of the iris (the colored part of the eye) that allows light to enter the eye. By dilating or constricting, the pupil controls the amount of light reaching the retina at the back of the eye.


How many pupil are in an eye?

There is one pupil in each eye. The pupil is the opening in the center of the iris that allows light to enter the eye. Its size can change depending on the lighting conditions to regulate the amount of light entering the eye.


The opening through which light enters the eye?

The pupil allows light to enter the eye.


Any drug that dilates the pupil of the eye is called?

Prozac can dilate the pupil of the eye.


What is the centere of the eye called?

It is actually called "The Eye"!


The opening in the center of the iris?

The small opening of the iris in the eye is the pupil.